BACKgROUND Patients with cirrhosis are at risk of cirrhotic cardiomyopathy,with resulting cardiac dysfunction and exercise *** minute walking test(6mWT)assesses functional status and predicts morbidity and mortality i...
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BACKgROUND Patients with cirrhosis are at risk of cirrhotic cardiomyopathy,with resulting cardiac dysfunction and exercise *** minute walking test(6mWT)assesses functional status and predicts morbidity and mortality in cardiopulmonary *** To determine if it associates with mortality by analyzing 6mWT performance in patients with liver *** A cohort of 106 cirrhotic patients was evaluated in the outpatient setting with echocardiogram and 6mWT and follow up for one year to document hepatic decompensation and *** distance in meters was recorded at the end of 6 min(6mWD).RESULTS This cohort had a mean age of 51 years and 56%male;patients were staged as Child A in 21.7%,B 66%and C 12.3%.Walk distance inversely correlated with Child scores,and was significantly reduced as Child stages *** who died(10.4%)showed shorter mean 6mWD(P=0.006).Low 6mWD was an independent predictor of mortality(P=0.01).CONCLUSION 6mWT is a noninvasive inexpensive test whose result is related to Child scores and *** is useful to identify patients with liver cirrhosis at high risk of mortality for closer monitoring and potential early intervention.
AIm:To evaluate the suitability of reference genes in gastric tissue samples and cell ***:The suitability of genes ACTB,B2m,gAPDH,RPL29,and 18S rRNA was assessed in21 matched pairs of neoplastic and adjacent nonneopla...
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AIm:To evaluate the suitability of reference genes in gastric tissue samples and cell ***:The suitability of genes ACTB,B2m,gAPDH,RPL29,and 18S rRNA was assessed in21 matched pairs of neoplastic and adjacent nonneoplastic gastric tissues from patients with gastric adenocarcinoma,27 normal gastric tissues from patients without cancer,and 4 cell lines using reverse transcription quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction(RT-qPCR).The ranking of the best single and combination of reference genes was determined by NormFinder,geNorm,BestKeeper,and *** addition,genEx software was used to determine the optimal number of reference *** validate the results,the mRNA expression of a target gene,DNmT1,was quantified using the different reference gene combinations suggested by the various software packages for ***:ACTB was the best reference gene for all gastric tissues,cell lines and all gastric tissues plus cell ***+B2m or ACTB+B2m was the best combination of reference genes for all the gastric *** the other hand,ACTB+B2m was the best combination for all the cell lines tested and was also the best combination for analyses involving all the gastric tissues plus cell *** to the genEx software,2 or 3 genes were the optimal number of references genes for all the gastric *** relative quantification of DNmT1 showed similar patterns when normalized by each combination of reference *** level of expression of DNmT1 in neoplastic,adjacent non-neoplastic and normal gastric tissues did not differ when these samples were normalized using gAPDH+B2m(P=0.32),ACTB+B2m(P=0.61),or gAPDH+B2m+ACTB(P=0.44).CONCLUSION:gAPDH+B2m or ACTB+B2m is the best combination of reference gene for all the gastric tissues,and ACTB+B2m is the best combination for the cell lines tested.
Alterations in epigenetic control of gene expression play an important role in many diseases, includinggastric cancer. many studies have identified a large number of upregulated oncogenic mi RNAs and downregulated tu...
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Alterations in epigenetic control of gene expression play an important role in many diseases, including gastric cancer. many studies have identified a large number of upregulated oncogenic mi RNAs and downregulated tumour-suppressor mi RNAs in this type of cancer. In this review, we provide an overview of the role of mi RNAs, pointing to their potential to be useful as diagnostic and/or prognostic biomarkers in gastric cancer. moreover, we discuss the influence of polymorphisms and epigenetic modifications on mi RNA activity.
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